I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

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The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?

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Free men do not ask permission to bear arms

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Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

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America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt. ― Malcolm X

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Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

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I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there, really. I don't know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can't run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That's the biggest single business in the World.

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The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.

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Whether life grinds a man down or polishes him depends on what he's made of.

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We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

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